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Last week saw Part One of our Interview with Connor from Kingsland Road! (If you haven’t read it check it out >>> here)

Part Two has even more laughs, what the boys would be doing if they weren’t in a band, Cats and the best of YOUR fan questions.

Once again, check it out and let us know what you think.

– Brumotions: You will soon be heading on a US Tour what are you most looking forward to out there?

Connor:Just going to America, I’m excited to get on a plane, leave and get to the US. Like there’s big burgers there which is cool, going to a couple of theme parks which is going to be awesome oh and I’m hoping I’ll get to go and watch an American football match… but I doubt I will.

– Brumotions: We will be really jealous if you do.

Connor:I know I want to go and watch, but I highly doubt that will happen. We are just really excited to get to a different country. We’ve done gigs in different countries before but not in America, we’ve had some American fans from right at the start so they have been waiting for a couple of years for us to go out there, so it will be really nice for us to see them and see how they feel about our music and see if we can gain some new fans whilst we are out there.

– Brumotions: Have you ever had any interesting fan experiences?

Connor: Uhm yes, let me try and think… we’ve had bra’s and different things thrown on stage, things I can’t say. We get given some decent presents too and some funny ones, someone got me a mirror with Leonardo DiCaprio’s face on it and someone got Josh a ken doll but with his face on it and people have waited in our flat to give us pictures and stuff, yeah they have managed to get their way into our flat and things like that.

– Brumotions: We aren’t quite sure if that’s cute or a little scary.

Connor: It was a little scary actually. It’s really hard to remember things that have happened, funny things always happen to us but we forget when we need to tell them.

– Brumotions: If you weren’t in Kingsland Road what would you be doing?

Connor: I always wanted to be in the Marines when I was a kid, so that’s probably what I’d be doing right now, I think Matt…Well Matt was a builder so he’d probably still be laying bricks and stuff. Josh, this is actually what josh would want to be doing, he’d probably be like, I dunno, a lifeguard, let’s just say a lifeguard and Thompson would work in a kennels…cause he likes dogs.

– Brumotions: Is that just a guess or have they actually told you this?

Connor:Nahhh that’s what they’ve told me.

– Brumotions: Alright then, we believe you.

Connor:Yeah you’ve got to believe me.

– Brumotions: Are there any advice or motto’s that you live by?

Connor: I’ve got cool sayings which I’ve heard people say that I like, but nothing that I kind of live by there’s things that as a band we tell people if they ask us – just not to give up and things like that and if someone tells you that you can’t do it, prove them wrong kind of thing, that’s probably the nicest thing being told you can’t do something and proving them wrong and being successful kind of knowing yourself and having the faith in yourself to do it and you do and that’s really nice a good feeling… Josh is the man for this, josh has like this app on his phone and everyday he reads us out like this little quote, it’s like quote of the day, he’s very sad like that and likes that kind of thing. It’s like horoscopes but it’s like a saying from like a president in the 60’s or something.

Fan Questions:

– Brumotions: So we have a couple of questions from your Klanders.

Connor: Go on then, hit me.

– Brumotions: @Elliee_Rixton wants to know who you would love to do a collaboration with?

Connor:I’m really obsessed with a couple of bands at the minute, Royal Blood and Catfish and the Bottlemen they would be sick to collaborate with, Adam Levine would be quite cool… Thompson would say Bruno Mars cause he’s obsessed with him …I think collaborating with Eminem would be cool as well, like a rapper or Tinie Tempah that would be cool.

– Brumotions: @MollieFinch1234 wants to know if you could date any one of the lads in Kingsland, who would it be and why … you can pick yourself we won’t judge.

Connor:The other lads annoy me sometimes and I don’t annoy myself, so I feel like that’s my best bet really, I’d never argue with myself, but I would argue with the other boys. So I’m going to say I’d date myself.

– Brumotions: Would you not find it boring being exactly the same?

Connor:But I suppose that’s what’s good, you have to be similar to be compatible with someone, we’d be the perfect couple we’d get married.

– Brumotions: @JoshZareIsMyMan asked if you could be any other celebrity for the day who would you be and why?

Connor: Someone interesting who’d have a really interesting day, I’d want to be somebody like Cristiano Ronaldo because that would be cool to see how good he is at football, like actually how good he is.

– Brumotions: We wonder whether that would change his talent if it was you that was playing football.

Connor:Nah I’d be better … no I wouldn’t really, that’s why I’d want to be him to see how amazing he actually is … and he’s very very very rich so that would be cool to see his house and stuff.

– Brumotions: @BethRitchiexxx wants to know what are you looking forward to most on tour.

Connor: Singing our new songs that’s going to be amazing and our London tour date for reasons I can’t say that will be really cool and to see all of our fans.

– Brumotions: @mattcahilltho_ wants to know if you were a superhero, what power would you have and what would your name be?

Connor:I’d be amazing at cleaning up and I’d be called Consuela, which is a little family guy joke if you get it… I’d usually say something like healing the wounded but then the lads would laugh at me for being really cringy so I’ve had to change my answer recently.

– Brumotions: And the last question from the Brumoters is, if you could be any animal what would you be and why.

Connor:Uhm a penguin cause they are really cool and they can swim in the ice water without getting cold and they are really cute as well, either that or a dog, I wouldn’t want to be a cat cause they are mean, I don’t like cats.

– Brumotions: But you could just change the way of cats… you could be a nice cat.

Connor:I don’t think they exist.

– Brumotions: You could be the first one…

Connor:I could be… no, cats are different you can’t breed like a nice cat, i’d have to breed with another nice cat and me being the only nice cat wouldn’t create a nice cat if you know what I mean.

– Brumotions: It sounds like you’ve put a lot of thought into that actually.

Connor:I have, its true though isn’t it, if I was the first nice cat, I couldn’t then breed with a horrible cat because it would be like, it wouldn’t be horrible or it wouldn’t be nice, it would be an average.

– Brumotions: Yeah make an average cat.

Connor:Yeah an average cat, who’d want an average cat that would be boring.

– Brumotions: Before we finish, if you have any last words for the fans that would be awesome.

Connor:Come and watch our tour, buy our album, let’s get in the charts cause I said that if we do I’ll run down my street naked… there we go last words.

So there you have it!

You guys heard Connor – If ‘We Are The Young’ charts he’ll run down his street NAKED! (You can purchase the album from online retailers including: Google Play, ITunes and Amazon, as well as your local HMV store)

Earlier this month we got the chance to chat with the lovely Connor from Kingsland Road to get to know the band a little better and see what they have planned for the future.

This interview has plenty of laughs, Tour Gossip, The Queen and King Con… you heard us right! Check it out and let us know what you think.

– Brumotions: Hello

Connor:I’m in the gym at the minute so I’m just going to go find somewhere quiet…two seconds… alright I’m somewhere, I’m cool.

– Brumotions: So for those who don’t know you guys, what makes Kingsland Road, Kingsland Road?

Connor: I don’t think there’s anything that defines us. I don’t know how to answer that one… we’re always late, not for important things obviously, we are weirdo’s, which is one of the main ones and everybody has beards … apart for me…. I don’t think there are any other boybands with beards.

– Brumotions: …Actually no they don’t do they.

Connor:I think they like having beards because it makes them feel like they’re in a man band rather than a boyband… I’m comfortable not having a beard.

– Brumotions: If you could describe your sound in three words what would they be?

Connor:Weird, Funky, Pop… I don’t know.

– Brumotions: So your debut album is coming out March 15th, how does it feel?

Connor: It’s really weird, the official statement that I said myself was that if someone had said to us two years ago, when we were first starting that we would have an album we’d slap em in the face and laugh at them.

I don’t think that we ever realised that it would happen and now that it has and its full of our own songs that we have written ourselves and spent a lot of time on, it feels a lot better so it’s cool.

– Brumotions: So at the moment is it still very surreal?

Connor:Yeah, still very, very surreal because obviously we started out just to gig and write music and we didn’t realise eventually we’d have all of the songs we’ve written on an album, on iTunes. Everything that’s happened in the past couple of years has been unbelievable really and we have kinda surpassed our own expectations and it keeps happening which is amazing, we couldn’t be happier at the minute.

– Brumotions: What can we expect from the album and which track is your personal favourite?

Connor: We are proud of all of the tracks as we wrote them all which I think is quite rare nowadays that every album that is released is written purely yourself which is the case of ours, every song we wrote, drawing from different things and stuff that happened to us. All the lads would have a different favourite, mines probably ‘Freedom’, it’s one of the first songs we wrote when we came from The X Factor and I just like it, I feel a connection with it.

I think every track is different that’s the thing, we listened through the other day together and every track is just really different, we didn’t plan just to go into the studio and write different sounding tracks, it kinda just happened and its really cool and organic, normally albums have 1 sound throughout and ours kind of has different sounds which is cool .

– Brumotions: We are really looking forward to it.

Connor:I’m glad.

– Brumotions: So you’ve also got a tour coming up soon can you give us any spoilers?

Connor:No spoilers, I know there’s one very exciting thing happening in London, which we are working on at the minute, I can’t give too much away but we’ve been practising and its awesome … it’s just going to be a really cool tour. It’s the tour before we head to America so we want to give the UK a massive musical hug and kiss before we head off out there for a bit and then obviously come back but it’s going to be amazing. We are very excited to tour and we love touring, that’s where we like being the most, on stage, so we are excited to see all of our fans from around the UK.

– Brumotions: What are your favourite tracks to play live?

Connor:Some of them we haven’t played live yet off the album but my favourite to play live … I don’t know I just love performing live all the time. I know the rest of the lads love performing ‘Shoreline’, I know like Josh and Thomps they like ‘Shoreline’ live I like ‘Walk Away’ which is one of my favourites, I just love how rocky it is and ‘He’s Got It Coming’ which is on the album, which we performed on our last tour but we have revamped it a bit there’s a new tune to it and there might be a little rap to it … who knows… there’s a little exclusive for you guys don’t tell anybody.

– Brumotions: Can you give us some gossip on what it’s like to tour with you guys are you all work and no party?

Connor:Its smelly… well not THAT smelly, its tiring and you know what, we are party animals sometimes but when they’re tired we do NOT party. I think the last tour we didn’t really go out, it was the same time as our EP and our single launch so we were shooting from Glasgow to London to do Lorraine and it was a bit mental so we didn’t actually have time to go out and party, we had a party on our last night, which was when we released our EP and we were in the club at like one o’clock at night and it went live and we were at number two in the charts on iTunes so we were buzzing and we got absolutely smashed, it was amazing. Yeah we do like to party but at the same time we are serious about music and performing so we don’t like to get so messed up that we can’t sing and perform as that’s the main thing we like doing.

– Brumotions: So is partying crossed off your list for this tour too then?

Connor:Yeah, I think it is actually, especially in America as well, it is very cramped as well, the last tour we had we were in a car as our tour van broke down, so we were in a 5 seater car and we were so rammed, it was horrible.

– Brumotions: Speaking of tour and live shows have you ever asked for anything ridiculous on a tour rider?

Connor:NO, aha we’re alright actually with our riders we only ask for like beer and sandwiches oh and towels and that’s it cause we get really sweaty. The other lads like to have a beer before they go on and I just get hungry so I like sandwiches before I go on that’s it, that’s all we ask for.

– Brumotions: You should start asking for outrageous stuff.

Connor:We’ve been to gigs before where all the riders have been laid out on a table for the artists and we had the smallest by far, we’ve never got used to that so we’ve never took the mick out of it, it’s just the simple things that we need.

– Brumotions: This is a question we ask everyone we interview, if you were to take the queen on a date where would you take her and why?

Connor:I reckon I’d take her to Buckingham Palace because I don’t think she’s ever been there; I don’t think she lives there does she?

– Brumotions: I think she lives there sometimes…

Connor: It would be cool to take her somewhere like Buckingham palace where she SUPPOSEDLY lives but…. Surely she doesn’t live there, with everybody watching her all the time. I’d take her on a tour of London as I think she’d appreciate that, as I’m sure she never gets to see the proper dingy parts, I’d take her to Soho.

– Brumotions: What about the London Eye?

Connor:Yeah exactly, and take her on the tube and stuff as I think she’s been deprived of that, then we’d go to McDonalds and have like a Big Mac as I bet she’s never had one.

– Brumotions: Would you pay?

Connor:Yeah, I suppose, and then we’d head to the cinema or something, but we wouldn’t go in the deluxe seats, we’d go in the proper rubbish seats and give her the experience of living like us… she’d love that, it’s like a Romcom where a rich girl goes out with a poor kid and he romances her with all the poor things he could do, I think I’d win her over and I’d be the future king if that happened.

– Brumotions: King Con, it’s got a bit of a ring to it hasn’t it.

– Connor:Exactly, King Con.

#Klanders, keep your eyes open for PART TWO which will be posted later this week!

It has even more laughs , Josh as a lifeguard, Cats and YOUR fan questions!

Kingsland Road’s debut album ‘We Are The Young’ is out NOW and can be purchased online on ITunes OR at your local HMV.

The band are also currently on tour – Tickets can be purchased at: http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/kingsland-road-tickets

After appearing on The X Factor in 2013, supporting The Vamps on tour and working on new material, Luke Friend is FINALLY back with his new single Hole in My Heart, which will be released in the UK on Sunday 29th March and can be pre-ordered NOW!

The track has elements of a nursery rhyme feel with its simplistic tune, however the raspy vocals and trademark tone of Luke’s voice provides a dynamic and exciting track with pure emotion which flows perfectly from start to finish.

The video shows Luke wondering the streets after his love interest and shots of him performing the track with his guitar.

Hole in My Heart is the perfect track to debut Luke’s sound and will no doubt be successful and is our Brumotions pick of the week.

Friend also embarks on a six-date tour on April 18 in Totnes, ending in London on the 23rd.

The band have posted their first cover track on Youtube – An acoustic version of 5 Second’s of Summers number one hit – ‘She Looks So Perfect’ and if this cover is anything to go by they are certainly ones to look out for in the future.

The four piece will also be joining The Vamps and Union J on their UK headline tour later this year alongside Madison Beer, which stops off in Birmingham at the Genting Arena on May 8th 2015.

American pop sensations, Before You Exit and The Voice superstar, Christina Grimmie are set to embark on a joint headline tour in the UK this February, stopping off at the Birmingham O2 Academy on Saturday 21st.

Before You Exit are made up of Brothers Connor, Riley and Toby McDonough who have been performing pop hits since 2009 and after gaining a dedicated fanbase in the US, the trio are now heading to the UK for the first time.

Their latest release ‘Dangerous’ is pure pop at its finest and is dangerously catchy (see what we did there). The band have also toured and written with fellow Brumotions’ favourites, Alex Gaskarth and Olly Murs!

Before You Exit will also be joined by Youtube phenomenon and The Voice finalist, Christina Grimmie who has seen the backing from the likes of Adam Levine (Maroon 5) and Lil Wayne – This past year also saw the release of her latest single ‘Must Be Love’, which is an amazing pop track.

This tour has been eagerly awaited by our Brumoters and it is a show not to be missed.

Full dates are as follows:

Tuesday 17th – Brighton – Concorde 2

Wednesday 18th – London – O2 Academy Islington

Thursday 19th – Bristol – Thekla

Saturday 21st – Birmingham – O2 Academy 2

Sunday 22nd – Manchester – Club Academy

Monday 23rd – Newcastle – O2 Academy 2

Tuesday 24th – Glasgow – Garage

Tickets can also be purchased NOW from – kililive.com

Make sure to check out both artists below and let us know what you think:

English rock favourites You Me At Six are teaming up with American pop punk mega stars All Time Low for a co-headlining UK arena tour later this year.

The two rock giants will play 5 UK venues in February, starting in Cardiff on the 9th and ending at London’s O2 Arena on the 14th, with the Birmingham show slotted in between on the 10th, at the newly named Genting Arena.

Meaning it’s exactly one month away!

This tour is highly anticipated as one of the most exciting tours of 2015 and tickets are on sale NOW, from most reputable ticket sellers!